1Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. 3And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men. 4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt. 5Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion. 6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men. 7And he knew their widowes, & he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring. 8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 9And they put him in prison and in chaines, and brought him to the King of Babel, and they put him in holdes, that his voyce should no more be heard vpon the mountaines of Israel. 10Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. 12But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. 13And now she is planted in the wildernes in a drie and thirstie ground. 14And fire hath gone out of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be] a sceptre to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.